Chapter 27 The Meiji Gentleman's Palace Conference (1)
"In the first game of the Meiye Jingu Tournament, I plan to let Sakai start." Director Kataoka gave his arrangement for the starting lineup of the Meiye Jingu Tournament.
After hearing this, Minister Ohta waved his hands nervously: "Wouldn't it be better to let Yagami start?"
"I know, but..." Director Kataoka gave the reason for his arrangement: "Among the first-year students, except for Yagami who transferred here, Tanba is pretty good, but he can't be considered a capable person at all.
Pitchers who can withstand it, we can't put all the pressure in Koshien in the spring on Jinguji and Yagami, we must let Sakai, a sophomore, share a certain amount of pressure!"
In fact, what worries him even more is that among the first-year students, excluding Yagami Yagami, except for Tanba, the other pitchers are not even good enough to enter the second team. If he can't recruit good pitchers next spring, once the god is
With the current second-year students like Miyadera graduating, the Seido Baseball Club may be in a pitching shortage again.
"Now that Jinguji and Yagami are on the line, try to let Sakai pitch in the game and grow up in the game as soon as possible." Director Kataoka continued: "The catcher is Matsuda. The two of them have a better relationship and can work together better.
Cooperate."
Although Director Kataoka is keen on cultivating ace pitchers who can play a decisive role, this does not mean that he does not know what the current Aomichi relies on to win the Tokyo Metropolitan Conference in the autumn. Under such circumstances, if he wants to win in the spring Koshi
In order for Sono to win the only victory, Yu Sakai must grow up in both strength and psychology, share the pressure of Jinguji Kazu and Yagami Yagami, and form a more complete pitching array.
However, apart from Yagami Yagami, there were no other particularly outstanding pitchers among the first-year students, which gave him a headache. After all, Tanba's problems were no less than those of his senior Sakai, if not more.
I hope there will be good pitching prospects in the next term. Director Ohta and Director Kataoka have thought of this together.
That afternoon, after the training, Supervisor Kataoka announced his decision to the members of the First Army: "Sakai, in the Meiye Jingu Tournament, you will start the first game, and the catcher will be Matsuda. The rest of the starting list will wait for the game.
I will announce it the day before it starts."
"Yes!" Yu Sakai and Kentaro Matsuda nodded in reply.
"Let's get here today and disband." Director Kataoka disbanded the team without saying anything else.
"Sakai, congratulations on starting!" A second-year senior next to Yu Sakamoto who was only promoted to the first team after the autumn Tokyo Metropolitan Conference congratulated him immediately.
"Thank you." Yu Sakai expressed his gratitude to those who congratulated him for starting.
The Meiye Jingu Tournament involves four rounds of competition within four days, and the schedule is very tight. This is probably why Director Kataoka asked him to start.
Everyone is looking forward to winning the Meiye Shrine Tournament. As the starting pitcher in the first game, he must work hard to continue Seido's victory.
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On November 12, everyone from Qingdao took a school bus to the Minye Shrine Stadium.
"There are so few people. There are even fewer people than at the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly in the autumn." Everyone from Qingdao sighed as they walked towards the stands.
"There will probably be more people watching in the finals."
On the field, the game between Narita, the representative team from the Kanto region, and Rishōsha, the representative team from the Kinki region, is in the fourth round.
After everyone in Qingdao found their seats and sat down, they carefully watched the game of Lu Zhengshe, who might be their opponent.
"call out!"
"Whoosh!"
"Bang!"
"strike out."
The ball speed is 152km/h!
On the field, Luzhengshe's ace once again struck out Narita's batters and scored the last out of the first half of the fourth inning. With a smile on his face, he exited the field and ran back to the dugout with the other fielders.
Everyone in Qingdao looked at the ball speed displayed on the scoreboard and started talking about it for a while.
"That's him, that monster pitcher with a top speed of 154km/h." Kentaro Matsuda said, looking down at the rest area of the Ryusei Club.
In this session of the Eastern Qing Dynasty, there are currently only three pitchers in the country who are known to have the fastest ball speed of more than 150km/h. Among them, the one with the fastest ball speed is the ace of Lu Zhengsha, and the remaining two, one is also from the Kinki area.
The trump card of Osaka Kiryu and the other one is the trump card of Komaki Komaki, Kodai from the Hokkaido region.
In the 1990s, fastball pitchers (high school field ball) with a maximum ball speed of more than 145km/h were very rare. However, in this era, with the improvement of living standards and the popularization and development of more professional training content,
Only pitchers with ball speeds above 150km/h are rare pitchers (high school field ball).
Of course, with the development of the times, Yagami believes that there will be more and more high school pitchers with a ball speed of 150km/h.
For today's high school field ball, such a fast ball speed is enough to prevent most hitters from hitting the ball. Mastering one or two variations of the ball is enough to cope with most games.
"Can I hit the ball at this speed?" I feel like I might not be able to hit the ball at all.
"After you get used to it, you can fight." Everyone in Dongqing Kingdom was on fire with a raging momentum.
"There are a lot of bad balls, and the control of the ball seems to get worse as soon as the ball speeds up." Chris thought back to the number of pitches made by Lu Zhengshe's ace. If every inning is so wasteful, it will be a great test for the pitcher's physical fitness!
"The top 1% of my ball speed is 140km/h." Yu Sakai whispered to Kentaro Matsuda next to him.
"It's okay, you just pitch. It will take some effort for the batter to adapt to your pitching."
After listening to Director Kataoka's discussion about the starting and subsequent lineup arrangements yesterday, Kentaro Matsuda knew that although Director Kataoka asked Sakai to start, he would only let him pitch the first five innings at most, and then he would switch to Yagami to pitch.
Jinguji will not be allowed to play, it depends on how well Sakai and Yagami shoot in front.
As he said, as long as Sakai pitches with confidence and boldness, it will take time for the batters in the first round to adapt, so just make sure that Yu Sakai is not beaten when facing the second round of batters.
Of course, if the opponent is really beaten during the game, Director Kataoka will definitely replace Sakai as soon as possible.
Everyone in Qingdao was chatting and watching the game. At the end of the sixth game, the score between the two sides was 2:5, with Luzhengshe temporarily taking the lead.
"I'm gradually able to keep up with the speed of the ball." Yagami said while looking at the two points scored by Narita in the sixth inning on the scoreboard.
"Luzhengshe's ace pitching ball is not powerful enough. Even if it is fast, once the batter keeps up with the rhythm, the ball will fly away!" Chris analyzed calmly...
Just like the problem that Yagami Yagami and Chris can see as spectators in the stands, Narita's hitters have begun to get used to the high ball speed of Rushengsha's ace after the rotation of the batting line.
Even if Narita's hitters really can't keep up with the ball speed of Luzhengsha's ace, they will choose to hit all the balls that Luzhengsha's ace throws, regardless of whether they are good or bad, in order to consume the number of pitches made by Luzhengsha's ace. This chapter has been completed!